About The sunny South. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1875-1907 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1887)
I CQU&hqh VOLUME XIII.—NUMBER 619. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1887. PRICE: $2.00 A YEAR IN ADVANCE. Shaking Across tbe Bloody Chasm. SOUTHERNER SONGS. Poetic Echoes From the Dead Past. GETTYSBURG. Tti. morning dawn, on Gettysburg, Tb« b»ttle-«mo«e I, creeping through W>de covet fl 'lda and grassy slope,. Now sadly wet with blood and dew. Here where their life blond ebbed away. In Honor's cause and Glory’s shed, The Gray and Blue together lie. The dying pillowed on tbe dead. On yonder ere,', at dawn of day Still wares tbe standard of the Stars, While, half-triumph ant. near away. Floats the brave banner of the Bars. Between the serried lines at last, The drlf lag clouds of smoke reveal The long gray lines tu columns massed, A living wall with fringe of steel. We see those srlendld columns sweep Across the Held. Mu bold their breath: Before them frowns tha' sullen s'eep. Before and m ar, Is Life or Death. They reach the slope.—from ridge and rock, The blinding Ores In torrents pour; B-neatb the fury of the shock, Tne earth seems shaken to its core. They are not such ss break and fly. No laggards droop, no coward, quail, Th se onli pause, who drop and die, Beueath tha: storm ot leaden hall. Above the click and clash of steel, Tne booming can :ojs' roar and swell. Are 1 cord, where surging columus reel, Tbe Union cueer and "rebel yell." They gain the crest—there hand to hand They bleed and tall. Alas I too few Are :eft of that h role band To break tnose stuhb iru lines ot blue. 'f Is sunset. For the II ue. a gleam Ot glory tills the dying day; From clouds above that, sunset streams, Auolher glory f r tbe Gray. 1887. The morning dawns on Gettysburg, The clover 11 -Ids are aewy sweet, The grassy slopes are fresh and green, Uuirampled uow by hostile feet. They meet again,-not steel to steel. Hit band to baud, and breast ti breast, Hailed by tbe cannons’ p-aceful pea ,— The Biue the bust, the Gray the guest. Now arm In arm where memory leads. Along the crest, across the plain, W'tn words of praise and kindly deeds they fight the battle o’er again. Nor host, nor gu« st. who Unger here. Though f icinen once, would wish to blot Tbe memories ihey hold so dear Of thlstwlce-cousecrated spot. And so they sbare,- the brave and true, Tbe glory of mat fateiul day: The 111 ay. the glory of the Blue, Tne B ue, the glory of the Gray. ’ Tls sunset. From yon heaven, away Fades every golden purple hue: O'er host and gue t. the twilight gray Blends wttti tue evening sky of blue. Times-Democrat. The American Section of the Union. [New Orleans Picayune.] The subject of foreign immigration is coming to be of great importance as a question of na tional policy. The returns show that Europe ans are ciming into the country at a rate never before known in the history of the republic, three and a half millions having arrived in the six years succeeding the tenth census of 1880, while during the entire preceding' history of the union since 1780, only ten millions of im migrants of all races and nations had come into the country. In view of this extraordina ry influx of foreigners and the depression of various indus'ries, depriving many thousands of work-people of employment, a great outcry has arisen throughout the Northern States, and measures to prevent or restrain the foreign in vasion have been demanded. , At this juncture it may be worth while to inquire what effect the state of affairs men tioned is having noun the South. According to the census of 188(1 there were about 6 680,- 000 foreigners in the United States, and of these only .‘120,871 were in the twelve Southern Stat*s of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor gia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and V'irgini*—Texas having more than one- third of the whole. Since 1880, although three and a half millions of foreigners have come into the country, few have settled in the South, ■o that out of ten million foreign born popula tion now in the Cni ed States not more than 600,000, or onr-lwentieth of the whole, are in the Southern Siates mentioned. As a consequence there has been none of the d.sturbanca to the labor system in the Southern States that has been so general in the North and West, caused by the extraordinary additions to the working population, while the socialistic disorders so rife in many of the Stales of the North and West have been en tirely unknown here. In these twelve South ern Slates there are nearly two million native born citizens who have come thither from other States and Territories of the Union, making a most desirable population. This movement of interstate migration to the South ward is constantly on the increase from States in the Northwest which are rap dly tilling up with foreigners of certain races. Take the Scandinavians, for instance, who have immi grated from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. They have set le in vast aggregations in par ticular districts of several States. They bring with them not only their language, habits and customs, but they maintain, »s far as possible, their institutions end traditions, so that they are convert...g entire extensive areas virtually into foreign communities. In Minnesota there are 120,000 of these people, in Wisconsin there are 00,000, in Iowa 10,000, in Dakota 20,000. Their own countryman, Mr. lij dinar Boyes- sen, the distinguisned author, in a recent arti cle on the subject, in the Forum Magazine de clared that in many instances they ietusid to adopt American ideas and were hostile to Americans generally. For these reasons there has begun a movement of the American popu lation from the districts that have been mo nopolized by those aud other foreigners, and that movement is Southward. Those people desire to escape from what is little better than a foreign land, and in the South they find not only congenial institutions and a friendly wel come, but the genial climate, the fertile lands, and the vast material resources which combine in addition to attract the invalid, the pleasure seeker, the capitalist, tbe man of enterprise and the honest, industrious worker. The South is actually gettirg to be tbe only truly American part of tbe Union. Yes, Gather the Sacred Dust. [Wilson (N. C.) Mirror.] As will be seen from a notice elsewhere pub lished, the Hon. G. D. Green, our noble, pa triotic and most excellent Mayor, is taking steps to remove the remainsof the Confederate dead, which are now resting in unmarked and neglected graves, to the "Soldier’s Circle in oar hallowed and beloved and beautiful Ma plewood. This movement strikes responsive chords in every heart, and awakes in hundreds of bosom* those noble notes of melody which mingle and ripple together in the grandest and most sonorous rythm, and which flow on in tbe smoothest channel of the Bweetest and ten- derest harmonies. Upon this point none differ. There are no bitter dissensions, no selfish wranglings, no rancorous discussions, no sor did objections. All recognize the duty—the grand and important and imperative duty we owe to tbe memory of those dead heroes, and all are willing to thus give suitable and strik ing and eloquent evidences of the lofty appre ciation of the grand and patriotic virtues, which made their names immortal. Yes, all are wiliing to pay tribute to the memory of gallant soldiers, for heroism is admired the wide world over, and its glory fires burn on and on, and fling forever its inspiring light adown the unending vista of Time. Columns sacred to its existence, with names of martyrs, and their broken javelins and battered shields, stand in imposing but voiceless eloquence to teach the centuries how heroes lived and how they died. Even those, whose cause was shadowed in the clouds of defeat, have won by the splendor of their heroism recognition of those sublime virtues which garland a hero’s name with the fadeless wreath of immortality. We are told that there is a cenotaph at the Emeus in honor of Themistocles, who having been outlawed for treason, afterwards won that monument from struggling Greece. Tbe devoted patriotism and heroic virtue of Thad- deus Kosciusko won reluctant admiration even from the iron bound and steel riveted wheels of despotism which bad rushed over and crushed out the liberties of his country, and to-day a lofty mound can be seen on the banks of the Vistula which speaks of that hero whose patriotism aud whose heroism once lit up with glory the now darkened sky of crushed out aud down trodden l’oland. And so it is with our own pale sleepers. Monuments are rising to their memories, and even those who PERSONAL MENT108. MAIN EXPOSITIONIBUILDING, PIEDMONT PARK, ATLANTA, GA. The Piedmont Exposition. We present to-day an engraving showing the exterior of the main building of the Exposition. It is very large—covering many acres—will be commodiously arranged and fitted up in first- class style, with ail needful arrangements, power, shafting, etc., to enable exhibitors to display all the merits and value of the anima ted contributions and the diversified capabili ties and power of such implements and ma chinery as they may place on exhibition. Besides the above there is a building devoted to cattle, GOO feet bv 100; a building devoted to poultry, 200 by 200; 1100 stables for horses; swine, goats, sheep, etc., in abundance. The following great attractions may be men- f tioned, independently of the pleasurable sen- wore the blue” now come with nobly plucked I sational spectacular displays which have been leaflets of admiration to twine around their extensive y advtrtised, namely: virtues. And we are glad to note that Wilson ! The collective county exhibits of a dozen is making a movement in this praise-worthy .counties, showing the resources of each county t.-iS aud regal unt, wo^uen, the pure and glorious fountains fiom which flow the purest patriotism aud highest gallantry- will proudly honor herself in thus honoring the dead heroes who sleep in our midst, for a tribute to heroes is not ttie giving of alms, but the worship of patriotism—ennobling and puri fying and exalting. And the monument that we will some day erect, though cold and dumb and passionless it may be, shedding no tears of sor* row and breathing no sighs of mournful mem ories, yet it will stand for years and years to come in its mute but pure devotion an endur ing testimonial of that undying gratitude which keeps in hallowed remembrance the deeds of a struggle which lit up with the sun-bursts of everlasting splendor the battle fields of their country aud gave to history such deathlessness of fame. The place where they now sleep is rank with the weeds of neglect. The fingers of decay are pulling down the slabs which beareth the name of "Somebody’s Darling,’’ and soon the sweep of the years will level the mounds and leave no sign to tell "Where sleep the brave who went to rest With all their country's wishes blest ” It is bes\ therefore, to remove them to the ci'Cle in Maplewood, where proper care can be more conveniently accorded them. It is our duty to keep green and fragrant with the flow ers of devotion the last resting place of those pale sleepers, and to show to the generations that are to come after us that the persons who are sleeping beneath are not traitors, but patri ots, and that the deeds which they performed for their country’s cause have justified them in the presence of a God of trutn and right and left to them the fadeless crown of martyrdom. Yes, let the noble and patriotic step be taken at once, and let us "gather the Bacred dust” and deposit it where our own loved ones are sleeping. And let us make it a custom that when we go to scatter flowers upon the graves which our owu deep affections are tending, to remember those who marched down the gory road to glorious death and through its crim soned portals to splendid immortality. Yes, let us do justice to the dead—let us bear their remains to our own loved Maplewood, and there let us deposit the sacred dust of those fetterless martyrs who passed from war to im mortality and took their places in the grand Valhalla of tlernity. Yes, let us now "Gather the sacred dust Oi the si I'll,-I-, tried and true, Wno bore tbe flag of our country’s Fust And dn d in a cause, tbo’ lost, still just, And died for me and you. • l,»t the dead 'hus meet the dead While the living o’er tnem weep, Aud tue men a bom L*e aud 8‘onewall led, And tbe hearts that once together bled Together siltl ahall sleep.” A VIRGINIA SONG IN FRANCE. “Oh, Carry me Back to Old Virginia”— How Mozart Adotped It. About thirty years Ago a gentleman from Boston was traveling through France in one of the old stages whose compartments were only obtained at considerable expense, and met aa his fellow-passenger a gentleman whose general knowledge and easy chit chat rendered the jour ney moat pleasant. When the stage arrived the Bostonian disclosed bis nationality, and Mozart eagerly asked him about the net.ro melodies, which he had till then vainly searched for. The gentleman was about 1, aving for his own home, but promised to bring Mozart all that he could gather of this music on his return to France. He kept his word, and dmiig the winter after his arrival the niasquarades, just before Lent, were liven with all the elegance which distinguished them at that time; f ,r the nobility, and even members of the royal family, frequented the gay salons where Mozart led the orchestra. On this evening, at the end of the season of 1884, a new strain, full of tender pathos, seemed delicately interwoven with the overture. At first light and graceful, the mu sic was charming, and then a waii that seemed to express a wild, passionate heart-cry, sound ed, and the assemby, wild with enthusiasm, turned to Mozart, and, with one shout of ap plause, lifted the tone-master from his stand and bore him in triumph round the room. Is there a Southerner who can ever forget this air, or a Virginian who would require to be taught the no'es of “Oh, Carry me Back to the Old Vir ginia Shore?” This old song of the South had charmed the maestro, and, grafting it upon his own individuality, he had thus inspired the brilliant circles of France.” ia-nffiworV, Hfce atbsfe and everyUpnj* ragged in tAe county. . The richest epitome of the soul.i s riches ever shown in collective exhibits from the cit ies of Birmingham, Anniston, Decatur, Tusca- looaa, Gadsden, Rome and Tallapoosa. The Richmond and Danville railroad, the Marietta & North Georgia railroad, the East Tennessee road and the Florida Southern road. Each of these collective exhibits will cost thousands of dollars, and you will see the grandest show of southern riches ever made. An art gallery with 400 pictures from the best living artists, and thirty paintings from Mr. George I. Seney’s gallery, which ranks with Vanderbilt’s. One of these pictures cost $40 000 (forty thousand dollars,) and the thir ty cost over a quarter of a million dollars. “THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY. Editor Sunny South: In a recent issue you ask for the lines, “The Hunters of Ken tucky.” I will give you two stanzas, all that I can remember. The song was taught me by an old-time country shoemaker when I was a small boy down in South Carolina. Yours truly, M. Springfield, Mo , Sept. 12, ’87: “Y*a gentlemen and ladles (air Wno grace this famous city, C«>me listen if you’ve time to spare, While I rehearse a ditty. Now for an oppjrtunity conceive yourselves quite For ’tts no?<often that you meet a hunter from Ken- Oid* Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky. “We raise a bank to hide our breast, Not that we feared of dying; But when we shoot we want a rest, Unless the gi.me be flj log. ...... When near enough to see them wink, we think it time to stop ’em; 4 . I think It would haye done you good to see Kentuck ians drop ’em; . _ t „ Old Kentucky, the hunters of Kentucky.” ANOTHER STATUE OF LIBERTY. A San Franc’aco Millionaire Will Erect It on a Peak In That City. A Statue of Liberty is to be erected on the higher of the twin peaks in San Francisco, by Adolph Sutro, the millionare. The contracts have been let, and work will be commenced at once. The figure and pedestal will be forty feet high, and the torch, which will be lighted by electricity, will be 1,000 feet above the level of the sea. The material to be used in tbe con struction will be entirely blue sand-stone, dug from quarries close by. The pedestal will rest on the solid rock of the peak and will be over twenty feet high, eleven feet square at the base and seven feet square at the top. . The principal figure will be that of a woman holding aloft in the right hand the torch of liberty and in the outstretched left hand the sword ofjustice. At her feet will be afigure em blematical of despotism, and will be that of a man lying on his side and clutching at the sword held out of his reach. The figures will cost 5,000, and the road on the side of the peak has been cut. already. The expense of cutting this road and getting the figures to the height will be very great. The peaks are in a most central position, being equidistant from the bay on the north and east and the Pacific ocean on the west. Senator Sherman in North Carolinia. Senator Sherman, sf Ohio, has accepted an invitation to attend the annual fair of the Col ored Industrial Association, to be held in Ral eigh, N. C., and commencing Oct. 2d. He is expected to make an address. The Raleigh Observer says "it is already evident that tbe approaching fair of the colored people will sur pass that of last year, and if Senator Sherman comes this year he wili.probably see the largest assembly of colored people ever in North Caro lina.” Death of the Oldest Methodist Preacher. Kev. Moses Rogers—a direct descendant of John Rogers, who was burned at the stake in KDgiaud on account of bis rel gious convictions in the sixteenth century—who was probably the oldest member of the Methodist ministry in America, died at Fresh Pond, Suffolk coun ty, N. Y., Thursday night. The deceased was in his 94th year, and had been preaching about seventy years. A Comedy Played by Horses, Mules and Pomes. Editor Sunkt South: 1 have recently been to see one of the greatest shows on earth —a regular comedy acted by horses, mules and ponies. These intelligent animals have been trained by Prof. Bristol, who has devoted his life to the study and development of equine character, and who has certainly brought to gether a singular group of actors in the brutes he now has under control. It is easy enough to select and train horses to perform single feats of a very astonishing kind; but this gen tleman has gathered his animals at bap-hazard, or rather has selected them chiefly with a view to the dissimilarity of their natures, and has compelled these animals to act together in a regular comedy—playing children at school. Denver, the clown inttie,facts as the monitor, and after removing the master's hat, coat, and gum shoes, proceeds to ’Ttjfii nis functions by reporting a number oAX'.cuoUrs f.oa? vario’s Then begin 8 the regal sty school routiner Jiie in oh t notable feature of this, is the wonderful capacity of Mattie in arch tne tic She tells the month, the day, the l our, and the minute; adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides simple numbers, without a word from the master, and at the request of any member of the audi ence. This mare also distinguishes colors by bringing a red, a white, or a b* indkerebief from a closed one-compartr \ desk, and catches a ball as easily as a short stop on the diamond. Besides the school comedy, these animals go through a number of other feats, singly or all together. Thus Denver brushes his master’s clothes, goes fishing, and takes lunch with the professor There is one failing he has, poor fellow. He has developed a remarkable fond ness for the bottle and endeavnrs to monopo lize that institution. Hornet plays the rocking horse, and jumps a rope. Several of the hors es swing and see saw, Eagle in ooe act stand ing on the middle of the board, with Mattie and Minnie at either end. and balancing them up and down by transferring the gravity through the movement of his feet. Nine of the animals play a regular tune on bells of differ ent sizes, some of them using two bells, mak ing a complete, though simple melody. Then the whole twenty-two of this marvellous equine company go through all the evolutions of a military drill, marchiDg in double or single file, countermarching, obliquing, wheeling in twos and fours and in column, and executing all the movements of the regular code. With one exception, l’rof. Bristol has had none of these animals over three years. He has conquered them, too, not by cruelty, but by kindness. Those who observe how often his hand seeks mis pocket during the perform- • ii j J . i .l. nirotiir* of flip Biurnr WASHINGTON CITY. Reminiscences of Distin guished Public Men. Incidents Which Have Transpired ai the National Capitol. ances will understand the mystery of the sugar loafs wherewith he rules his little animal world. This spectacle is worth a whole series of moral lessons to the children, teaching them how to make friends of the dumb brutes around them by acts of gentleness. II. 1*. M. Baltimore, Md., Sept. 12, 1887. A Library for the Asylum. We take special pleasure in inviting attention to the following suggestion and request of a much esteemed lady subscriber and friend of tbe Sunny South, in Augusta. It is needless to say that we heartily indorse the movement and cheerfully give it our support. It will be observed that this lady has commenced collect ing books—adding works to her faith. Now, how many ladies in other cities in Georgia will emulate her example and do likewise? “I saw an article in a Mi Hedge ville paper of last month asking every one in the SUte to contribute one volume to the Asylum Library. They are most anxious to have a library; and as the StAte cannot furnish it, it seems only right and kind that every one who can should give one book. I have a collection of twenty- five volumes, and hope to get many more. Will you not call attention to it in your paper. I tbihk every one would be gl*d to assist in so good a work.” Chinaman Educating for Missionary Work. Ying Lee has for some time past kept s Chi nese fancy-good store on Main street, Hartford, Conn. He is twenty-six years of age and was born near Canton. He is atomt to enter upon a four years’ course of theological study at Mount Ilermon School, Norihneld, Mass. He is a young man of quick intellect and high am bitions. At the end of his course at Mount Ilermon he will begin missionary work among his couLtrymen either in this country or Chi- Sunflowers for Fuel. Sunflowers are used in Wyoming Territory for fuel. The stalks when dry are as hard as mapiewood and makes a hot hre, and the secd- headR, with the seeds in, are said to burn bet ter than the best hard coal. An acre of sun- fliweis will furnish tael for one stove for a year. Think of the day, tie humbling, affecting, overwhelming day, wllen the cup of cold water will re appear as an ingredient in the everlast ing glory.—James Hamilton, D. D. Force Library-American Archives. The Force Library was purchased by Con gress in 1800, for .$100,000, the appropriation passing both Houses without a dissenting vote, and the collection was soon removed to the Capital. It contained between 40,000 and 50,- 000 books, 30,00 pamphlets, 800 volumes of newspapers, and a wealth of Revolutionary au tographs, inSMJai fiSfi’ Erhidfl adllGu * Jptrtfr.ireing erected by him for a irint- mg ofli te bad its especial value. Every pam phlet, handbill or newspaper was hailed, as it contributed to throw some light upon the his tory or politics of the past, or ti illustrate some character in the long picture gallery ef depart ed American worthies. The greater portion of the volumes in his library, and especially the Revolutionary newspaper, aud pamphlets, were filled with marks and memoranda indica’ing careful study and repeated examination. Ref- erences to other and collateral authorities, notes showing where further information had been published or was to be found, references to catalogues of early print ed works where any volumes of ancient typo graphy bad been described—all these and simi lar elucidations were scattered through the well- thumbed and dusty volumes. And one could rarely call upon the veteran student without finding him, with pen in hand, betiding over some subject of a century ago which he was pursuing through a multitude of authorities. Unfortunately, Col. Force exhausted all of his small fortune in purchasing for his collection, and he was forced to mortgage it to a Washing, ton bank! -house. He staggered along under his burden manfully, cheered by no hope of recompense and struggling with debt, until he was forced to sell. The collection, well cata logued would have brought at auction a larger sum, but he preferred to have it go in its umity to the Congressional Library. When his treas ures had been rem. ved, his health failed him, and he passed quietly away on the 23d of Jan uary, 1808. The Force collection and the vol umes of "American Archives,’’which he edited, are his monument. A Dinner in 1819. I came across, a few days since, a letter writ ten from Washington in January, 1819, by the Hon. Elijah H. Mills, then a senator from Mas sachusetts. He then wrote: "Yesterday I din ed with the French Minister in a party corsiat- irg of about twenty to twenty live, mostly members of Congress. The dinner was in true French style, everything so disguised and transformed that no one knew what to ask for, or what was before him; whether ham or jelly, mutton chop or pudding no one could tell un til he bad put his knife into the dish. The first course consisted almost entirely of cold meats, in various forms, pickeled, hashed and minced, as well as whole. Turkey s without bones, and puddings in the form of fowls, fresh cod dis guised like a salad and celery like oysters, all served to excite the wonder and amazement of the guests. It reminded me of an anecdote told by Horace Walpole when givingan account of a dinner of a great man at which he was pre- sant. He said: “Everything was cold but the water, and everything was aour but the vine gar.’ Excepting, however, the perplexity of finding out what was ujon the table, I had a very pleasant time. Mr. and Mrs. de Neuville are decidely the most pleasant and the most popular of the foreigners residing here. Plea sant and affable in their deportment, they take great pains to please, and to avoid the cere mony and cold politeness wh’cu distinguish al most all the intercourse which takes place here. Although a frivolous nation, they both seem very considerate and sufficiently grave,and have much lea* of frivolity than the other ministers resident here. Their kindness seems unaffect ed, and their piety, it is said, is equally so. In the evening there was an immense crowd of ladies and gentlemen, their house being open for that purpose every Saturday evening. The usual insipid interchange of idle questions and needles replies, gazing, lounging, card-playing and dancing occupied the various groups, as fancy or caprice might dictate, and the evening closed’with a waltz by tbe daughters of tbe Spanish Minister and a few others, mostly for eigners. ” Mrs. Hughea-Hallett. Mrs. Hnghes-Hallett of London was, when she was Emily Scbaumbergof Phladeldhia, the handsomest woman who has ever visited Wash ington city. It was said of her that she never showed age; but if she had, people would have forgotton it when she opened her mouth. She hail beanty, wealth, s.cial position, a fine and highly cultivated voice, great charm of manner and remarkable intellectual gifts. She spoke Italian, German, French, and Spanish as fluent ly as English, and was highly accomplished musically. Altogether it seemed as if this Philadelpnia girl was cut out to shine in some court circle instead of the plain drawing room on Pine street, where some of the most distin guished persons who visited this country went to pav her court and attention. Her father, Col. Von Schaumberg, was an army officer, but resigned his commission in consequence of some complications attending a duel which he fought in New Orleans. As in the case of the baroness and her husband, having been born in 1828, ten years before him. Yet at forty Miss Von Schaumberg looked little more than twen ty. and not only held her own in appearance with all the younger belles of society, but in any assembly received almost as much atten tion as all the rest of them together. Wherever she went she was the centre of attraction. She had remarkably fine eyes, a superb figure, clas sical featues, and was altogether a paragon. Her romances and the records of her disap pointed lovers would fill volumes. Her mother was the sister of John Page, one of the promi nent citizens of Philadelphia, who left his for tune to his niece. Valuable Papers Lost, perishedon tHjfald Wolfe Ton-,the Irish patriot, French armv nkiring th-ee campa’gna. After the battle of Waterloo be resigned aod came to Wasbingtor-wfty, where he settled with his mother at G’litrgetown and received Govern ment employment. He married the daughter of Mr. William Sampson, who was the early friend of his father. She survived him, and had, in the latter years of her life, two large trunks filled with manuscripts of tbe greatest value. After her death great efforts were made to obtain them, but without success. It is to feared that they were destroyed. Alphabetical Alliteration. Editor Scnnv Sooth: I found the sub joined in a very old journal, and send it to you for publication. It is the most perfect speci men of alliteration I have ever seen, for in it the whole alphabet is fathomed, and each word in each line claims its prop r initial. There are other curiosities in the book—“a temperance lecture two hundred and fifty years ago”; a ballad three centuries old; “The Wan dering Jew,” a part of the old superstition up. on which was founded the novel of Eugene Sue. Hknsir I. Burkb. Bainbridge, Ga. An Austrian armv, awfully army <1, Bildly, Dy battery, besieged Belgrade; Cossack comminders comma' ding came. Dealing destruction’s devastating doom; Evety endeavor engineers essay For : ame, tor fortune, flgbtlng—furious fray: Geuerais ’galist Generalsgr.pple-gracious God! How honors Heaven, heroic hardihood! Infuriate—indiscriminate In IP, Kinsmen Rill kinsmen—Rlmmsn kindred kill; I,.bor low levels lottles —longest Hues— Men march ’mid mounds, ’mid moles, 'mid murder- ona mines; Now uotsy uuiuuers notl.'e nought Of outward obstacles, opposing ought; Poor patriots, partly pmcnaaed, partly pressed, 1} itte <i taking, quickly quarter, quarter quest; K asou reiurns, religious right r.mounds— nuwarrow sums sucu saugniuary sounds, truce to tile Turk—triumph totheiralu! Unwise, unjust, uom rcifui Uxanc! Vanish, yam victory—vanlsu victory vaiof Why Wi«h we warf-re? Wherefore welcome w«r, X rxes, X mines Xiuibns. X xierel V .eiQ f ye youths! Vwinen, y mid your yells, Z Tin’s z trpartes’, Zoroaster’s zeal, And au attending— ig-inst arms appeal. THE ROYAL PLATE. Croat Value of the Cold and Silver Used at the Jubilee Banquets- Tlio royal plate, probably the finest in the world, was used at the state banquets at Windsor during the jubilee. It is usually kept in two strong rooms at Windsor, and is valued at $10,000,000. The gold service purchased by George IV., dines 130 persons, and the silver wine-cooler, which he bought about the same time, holds two men, who could sit in it com fortably. It is enclosed in plate glass, and the I ty. What the People An Doing and Saying. Mrs. Garfield is recreating in Canada with her family. M. Cbevreul the veteran French scientist en tered upon his 102d year on Aug, 31. Mrs. Frank Leslie returned by the City of Rome on the Utb from an extended European tour. The Emperor and Empress of Brazil expect to meet Emperor William at Baden at the end of the month. President Grevy, of France, was 89 years old on Aug. 14. fie received 1,000 telegrams of congratula ion. Col. Fred I). Grant, it is said, will snrely be nominated by the Republicans of New York for Secretary of State. Kuki, the Japanese Minister at Washington, is not converted to Christianity, but has had his children baptized. It is stated that the copyright of Miss Hol ley’s book, "Samantha at Saratoga,” was pur chased by the publishers for 910,000. Ex Congressman Albert Gallat'n Talbott, of Danville, Kentucky, died of heart disease on the 9tn while visiting relatives in Philadelphia. Prince Bismarck owns distilleries at Variza, Misdov and Wendisch-Puddiger, the annual output of which is estimated at 600,000 litres. Mary Anderson denies the rumor that she is to become a subject of Queen Victoria “I shall always be a Blue Grass country girl,” she says. The Princess of Wales is reported in poor health, tie result of the sad fate of her favorite sister, the Duchess of Cumberland, who re cently became insane. Tbe German emperor has given one thousand marks to the fund for tbe erection of a monu ment in Berlin to the memory of the famous German poet Chamisso. Judge Walton, of Corsicana, Tex , has per formed the marriage ceremony for 785 couples during the past eighteen years. His revenue from this source exceeds $6,000. The fortune of George Washington, Jr., the Pittsburg inventor, is estimated at $9,000,000. He ranks with E iison in the success of his numerous inventive achievements. Miss Hidalgo, of New York, a five-year-old heiress worth $5,000,000, and Miss May Sbarp- less, an eight-year-old heiress worth $7,000,000, are stopping at Lung Branch and Sea Girt. Mrs. Langtry is building a cottage on the shores of Lake Tab te, California. Tahoe is one of the most, beautiful sheets of water in ex istence. It is 0,200 feet above the level of the sea. Ex Senator Tabor, of Colorado, has taken $12 000,000 out of mines iu the Rocky Moun tains. He has a natural genius for the busi ness, and has succeeded where hundreds have failed. It is reported on good authority that Victoria Morosini-Schilting-lIutskamp is now in a con vent in Italy, where she wi 1 remain for some forgot.” " ' J ' *' '■* W. W. Corcurau. the venerable philan thropist, has returned to his Washington home greatly improved in health. He will be ob liged, however, to remain closely indoors for several months. Count de Brazza, the African explorer, has arrived at New York, and is on his way to New Orleans to wed Miss Cara Slocumb. The courtship took place on the Continent, where tbe bride elect lately traveled. Quite lately a man with only one leg swam across the river Citde, in Scotland, between Kirn and the Oloch, a distance of about two and a half miles. He was accompanied by s boat, and was quite fresh at the finish. The oldest bank president in the country re sides in Delaware and bis name is Charles Tat- man, 96 years of age and in full possession of his faculties. He is president of the New Castle County National Bank at Odessa. Dr. Jessup, of B urut, writes that “the Sul tan of Turkey has set the seal of imperial ap probation upon thirty-two editions of Arabic Scriptures, allowing them to be sold, distribu ted and shipped without leave or hindrance.” It is doubtful if Bonanza Flood re-enters business. His eyesight since his recent illness is practically destroyed, and he feels like spending the remainder of bis days as quietly as possible. His fortune is estimated at $10,- 000,000. George William Childs McCarter, son of Robert McCarter, of Newark, N. J., is one week old and is worth $1,000. His money is a present from George W. Childs, of Philadel phia, whose niece, Miss Peterson, married Mr. McCarter about a year ago. Jane Oshkosh, a granddaughter of the cele brated chief after whom the Wisconsin city was named, is to have a monument erected in the cemetery near Kcshena. The deceased was a Catholic, and the testimonial to her memory is the work of her Indian friends. Shipbuilder John Currier, who died in New bury port, Mass., on Friday night, shaped many a splendid ship in his town. He began work in that line titty-five years ago, and since then nearly 100 craft, each of more than 1,000 ton nage capacity, have slid from his ways. Mr. M. J. Tatum, the man who made the first plug of “horey dew" toba.co put up in Guilford county, North Carolina, was in Greenesboro the other day. He introduced "honey dew”1u 1840—17 years ago The reg ulation plug at that time weighed 14 ounces. Dr. Elizabeth Beatty, of Indore, sent out by the Presbyterian church in Canada as a medi cal missionary, has treated over 6,000 patients in the past twelve months, and thinks a hospi tal and training school for Hindoo women would make thousands converts to Christiani- splendid chasing took two years. There are some quaint old pieces in the royal collection which belonged to Queen Elizabeth, having been taken from the Spanish Armada, and others were brought from India, China and Burmah; and there is one cup which belonged to Charles XII. of Sweden. Mrs. S. C. Eccleston, who returned recently to the Argentine Republic, is one of sixteen women teachers who went from this country about four year* ago at the urgent request of the Argentine Minister of Education, ani were placed in charge of public schools in the sev eral provinces. ' The fact that all were Protest ants caused them to be regarded with some suspicion at first, in a country where the Ro man Catholic is the prevalent as well as the State religion; but it soon came to be under stood tha: their teaching was purely secular, and the schools are well attended by all classes. Mrs. Eccleston speaks with enthusiasm of the succets of their educational work and of the generous treatment the North American teach ers received from the government. The Chicago News says ministers are so scarce in Idaho that they have to be imported in many cases where people wish tu get mar ried. Traiiis are stopped that they may be searched for ministers. Robert Bonner reeeui.y piosouted Jockey Murphy with the roan gelding Keene Jim, record 2.19, and added jokingly: "I don’t care for horses that, can’t go a quarter better than 33 seconds.” Murphy got np behind the horse, which is valued ar, $6,500, aud sent him a quar ter of a mile in 32 seconds. Keene Jim has been driven in 2:16. One of the great characters of Loudon society is Maria, Dowager Marchiones, of Aylesbury. She is an octogenarian, vary eccentric and sar castic, but despite great poverty a favorite in the grandest houses. Many of the English papers do not hesitate to refer to her aa "Oid Maria.” W. H. R. Williams, a carpeiter of Mil waukee, and Mrs Jane R. Williams, by the set tlement of an estate in Wales, find themselves raised from a hand and month existence to one of wealth. Each receives $100,000 from the estate. The property has been in litigation for some time past. Carter Harrison was one day talking about the boys of Chicago whom he knew. After naming scores of them, aud dwelling on the characteristics of each, he said: "And then there’s my boy Cato.” For a moment he paused, and then added: "Well, Cato Harr - son’s the only boy in Chicago whom I don’t know.” Capt. George F. Price, of the Fifth United States Cavalry, is anxious to learn the where abouts of Private R. W. Heeth, formerly of the same regiment, whom he desires to present with a $9 000 farm in Kansas. Capt. Price waa severely wonnded in a fight wi h the Sioux In dians in 1876, and Private Heeth rescued him at the peril of his owu life. John Jacob Astor has bought of Cyrus W. Field one of the most beautiful estates oa tue Hudson, paying about $160 000 for the same. The mansion has a frontage of six.y feet. Mr. Field pai i $60,000 for the property, but after wards expended $ 10,000 in improvements. Ue sells it because his daughter, Mrs. Liadiey, for whom it was bought, does not care to live there.
